Chapter 620: The Expensive Thorn Sword Grass Cultivation Plan!

"Smooth talker."

Ling Shuang shot him an exasperated look, didn't continue the topic, and instead said:

"There's one more thing. The Lei Huo combat art was repaired by you, so you can set the viewing price at the martial hall.

Twenty percent of the sale price will be your personal income, deposited into your martial hall account.

Take a look and decide how much you want to set it at."

"Combat arts can be sold for money?" Xu Jingming was a little surprised — this was truly an unexpected windfall.

"Right now, how much does an S+ grade combat art manual sell for at the martial hall?"

"Charged by the hour. Viewing for one hour costs 50 points."

"50 points? That expensive?" Xu Jingming's brow shot up.

For ordinary ability users, to fully master a combat art, just studying it alone takes at least five or six hundred hours.

In other words, learning an S+ grade combat art costs at least over 30,000 points!

That's 600 million Great Xia coins!

Even with only a 20% cut, that's 150 million Great Xia coins in income.

And that's just from one person alone.

The special nature of the Lei Huo combat art means most lightning-system ability users will be interested in it.

How much it could ultimately earn, he didn't dare imagine.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Jingming said directly:

"Set the Lei Huo combat art's viewing price at 100 points per hour, and add an extra condition: a minimum purchase of 300 hours."

Calculated this way, viewing the Lei Huo combat art costs at least 30,000 points!

For elite training camp students, coming up with that many points in a short time is still somewhat difficult.

This rule of his mainly targets the higher-ups of Lei Ting Wu Guan!

By the time they finally discover this Lei Huo combat art is a dud, it'll be too late to regret.

"That group of guys like Liu Shan — don't they dislike me and Teacher? Perfect, I'll use this combat art to fleece them out of a pile of points!"

A mischievous grin surfaced at the corner of Xu Jingming's mouth.

"Alright, give me the original Lei Huo combat art manual. I'll upload your pricing shortly."

Ling Shuang didn't think much of it.

After all, it was Xu Jingming who completed the combat art — he could price it however he wanted.

Ling Shuang moved quickly. After getting the Lei Huo combat art manual from Xu Jingming,

she used a spatial teleportation to arrive at Lei Ting Wu Guan's local library, filed the manual into the collection, and entered the viewing requirements.

As early as one month ago, after Xu Jingming publicly displayed the Lei Huo combat art,

many people at Lei Ting Wu Guan had been waiting to borrow this combat art, but because Xu Jingming had gone to Qingfeng Secret Realm,

the manual had never been filed. Though anxious, they could only wait bitterly.

Now that the manual was on the shelves, many students and instructors wanted to be the first to see it.

But the 300-hour minimum and the price of at least 30,000 points still discouraged a large wave of students.

As for those higher-ups in the martial hall who possessed lightning-system abilities, they were even more vexed.

They had practically flipped through the incomplete Lei Huo combat art several times already.

What they were missing were the five parts Xu Jingming had completed.

30,000 points is enough to view a slightly inferior SS-grade combat art.

Just to look at five completed sections — that really is too much of a loss!

But the effect of converting lightning-system abilities into elemental fire-system abilities was simply too tempting.

So, even though they clearly knew Xu Jingming had deliberately set the price high, they still held their noses and bought it.

At the same time, after purchasing the combat art, who got to view it first became another problem.

So many of the higher-ups hurried to the library, wanting to get their hands on the combat art first — the scramble was fierce!

Meanwhile, the moment Xu Jingming returned to his villa, he received a notification from Eva.

Eileen had sent over the cultivation plan for the Thorn Sword Grass.

'Rare plant lifeform, Thorn Sword Grass, high resilience, possesses strong offensive capability. Currently there are three cultivation plans:

Plan One: Primarily cultivate resilience, enhance defensive capability. Primary cultivation material: Thick Black Soil.

Note: Will reach seventh-tier in approximately half a year, costing roughly 5.4 billion Blue Star coins.

Plan Two: Primarily cultivate offensive capability, strengthen the Thorn Sword Grass's sword leaves. Primary cultivation material: Narcissus Milk.

Note: Will reach seventh-tier in approximately seven months, costing roughly 5.3 billion Blue Star coins.

Plan Three: Both resilience and offensive capability. Primary cultivation materials: Thick Black Soil, Narcissus Milk.

Note: Will reach seventh-tier in approximately three months, costing roughly 10.1 billion Blue Star coins.'

"Starting price is 5 billion Blue Star coins? That expensive?" Xu Jingming was startled.

Blue Star coins are the international universal currency, issued uniformly by the United Nations.

The exchange rate with Great Xia coins is approximately 1:9.6, so 5 billion Blue Star coins equals roughly 50 billion Great Xia coins!

"5 billion Blue Star coins can cultivate a seventh-tier master-level combatant.

And it's renewable and growable — that's already quite a bargain."

Eva's holographic projection floated nearby, swaying as she spoke.

"That point is indeed no problem, but isn't this growth time just too slow?

Even the fastest cultivation plan still needs three months to reach seventh-tier."

Xu Jingming was a bit speechless.

Three months — if his luck was good, he himself might have already touched the edge of seventh-tier.

"Plant life is different from you humans; it has no advancement bottleneck.

As long as enough resources are invested, it can break through to seventh-tier within ten days!

But the funds required would start at several hundred billion Blue Star coins at minimum, and that wouldn't be cost-effective.

However, if you, an S-rank, can afford that price, then I can directly put together a deluxe cultivation plan for you."

Eva said with a giggle.

"Several hundred billion Blue Star coins? Never mind, then." Xu Jingming hurriedly waved his hand.

Including the points on the Lei Ting Wu Guan, after subtracting all kinds of equipment, his entire fortune added up to less than three billion Blue Star coins.

Several hundred billion Blue Star coins — even if he sold himself, he couldn't come up with that much!

Wait, no — if he sold himself, he actually could come up with it.

But he couldn't really sell himself just to cultivate a plant.

"What a scam! I never expected cultivating plant life would be this expensive!"

Xu Jingming finally saw it clearly — this thing was a bottomless pit!

"The martial hall points won't be touched for now; they might come in handy later.

As for the cash in the bank card, it's already saved up to 24.3 billion Great Xia coins.

Sitting there unused all this time, it's perfect to use for cultivating the Thorn Sword Grass."

After a moment of deliberation, Xu Jingming quickly made his decision.

Since he was going to cultivate it, he'd use the best cultivation plan — 24.3 billion Great Xia coins would be enough for the Thorn Sword Grass to consume for a month.

For the remaining funds, he'd figure something out.

As for giving up on cultivating the Thorn Sword Grass, Xu Jingming had no such thought.

After all, once the Thorn Sword Grass grew up, it could not only help him in battle.

More critically, it could transform into battle armor with formidable defensive power!

Just one set of SSS-rank battle suit alone costs several hundred billion Blue Star coins.

Better to just invest this portion of funds directly into the Thorn Sword Grass.